Biography
O.C. Fisher was born Ovie Clark Fisher in Junction, Kimble County, Texas to Jobe Bazilee and Rhoda Catherine Clark Fisher. He married Marian E. De Walsh on September 11, 1927. A daughter named Rhoda was the couple's only child.
Fisher attended University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado, and Baylor University where he received his LL.B. He was admitted to the bar in 1929. Fisher practiced law in San Angelo for two years and in 1931 was elected County Attorney in Tom Green County, Texas.
Clark Fisher served the 53rd District of Texas in the Texas House of Representatives 1935-1937. 1937-1943, Fisher was District Attorney for the 51st Judicial District of Texas.
In 1942, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat and served in the 78th United States Congress through the 93rd United States Congress. After heart surgery in 1973, Fisher announced that he would not be standing for re-election in 1974.
O.C. Fisher died December 9, 1994.
Baylor University is the repository for the O.C. Fisher Papers.
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